Thread: My Stupid Fucking State Just Passed A Smoking Ban

Originally Posted by Syme

What I'm telling you is that if a person owns a bar or restaurant, that person should be the one to decide whether to allow smoking by their guests.

Yeah and I guess huge corporations can dump waste and cause massive amounts of pollution anywhere they "own", I mean, the other people who are affected can just go elsewhere, right?

Seriously, I don't even know how you can logically argue this. Why should anybody be restricted from an establishment because they are concerned with their health? So if my grandfather died of lung cancer and I don't want to go through the same thing, I have to avoid X amount of establishments?

The difference here is that your argument is biased towards smokers: smokers aren't restricted from anti-smoking environments, they simply have to go OUTSIDE to smoke..opposed to those who actually genuinely care about the health of their lungs (etc.) basically can't go to these establishments because of smokers being allowed (and when smoking laws don't exist, it's fucking hard to find a decent non-smoking bar).

You can't compare private homes to a public establishment (whether privately owned or not) because of the sheer amount of different people you are inevitably serving/dealing with, opposed to your house which is uniquely accommodated for yourself (and family).

You will never be able to credibly argue that accommodating a smoker, who could just as easily go outside and smoke > restricting someone who is health-conscious from an establishment.

In either case, banning smoking is better for business because < 50% of adult populations are smokers